How to Manage Pests

Pests in Gardens and Landscapes

Seedcorn maggot—Delia platura

Seedcorn maggot larvae are small, legless, white maggots usually less than 0.33 inch when full grown;
the head end is pointed and the rear is blunt. Adults are dark gray flies about half the size of the common
housefly.

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